The media product represents teenage social groups through some use of stereotypes. Specifically, it portrays some teenage characters as "hoodie wearing, smoking, drinking, lazy, noisy good for nothing chavs" who rob others, enforcing stereotypes of teenagers. However, it also challenges these stereotypes through the main characters who do not fit this mold. The document discusses how it aims to both enforce and deny common stereotypes of teenagers, ethnicity, gender, and social class through its various characters.

1. Evaluation question 2
How does your media product
represent particular social
groups?

2. Stereotypes-age
• The common stereotype for teenagers is to look on this group as nothing
but a bunch of “hoodie wearing, smoking, drinking, lazy, noisy good for
nothing chavs who have sex and do whatever the fuck they want“
• In our project we decided to in part enforce this stereotype by having half
the teenage characters in such attire and looking like they are up to no
good, they then punctuate this statement by robbing one of the main
character.

3. Stereotypes-ethnicity
• A stereotype of white British includes the idea that they are all "extremely
self-involved, uneducated about other ethnic and sexual groups than
themselves, and are unable to understand the complicated ways in which
people who are not like them survive.“
• In our project we don’t really touch on this but there are a few mentions
about one characters sexually, to attempt to find out what sort of comments
would be said, we talked to people fitting the stereotype we wanted to
portray for the hooded teenagers and we found that this was the most
popular at the current time.

4. Stereotypes-gender
• The Stereotype we wanted to use was one on teenage boys depicting hoodie-wearing
kids as suspicious and hostile. The stereotypical images for such things are “thug” or
“trouble makers.”
• We decided to enforce this stereotype in some ways but deny it in others for example
half of our characters, the hooded teenagers, are prime example of this stereotype as
they hang around public places with there hood up then rob innocent passers by.
While the main characters are completely different no hoods and one in in a smart
checked shirt and jeans

5. Stereotypes-class
• The lower class stereotype is symbolized by poverty, homelessness, and
unemployment. People of this class, few of whom have finished high school, suffer
from lack of medical care, adequate housing and food, decent clothing, safety, and
vocational training. The media often stigmatize the lower class as “the underclass,”
characterizing poor people as welfare mothers who abuse the system by having more
and more babies, welfare fathers who are able to work but do not, drug abusers,
criminals, and societal “trash.”
• We decided to enforce this stereotype in some ways but deny it in others for example
half of our characters, the hooded teenagers, are prime example of this stereotype as
they hang around public places with there hood up then rob innocent passers by.
While the main characters are completely different they were both smartly dressed
and fairly polite.